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Pyrgomorphella sphenarioides Bolívar, 1904

Ethiopian Stick Grasshopper
Pyrgomorphella sphenarioides Bolívar, 1904: male, lateral view. (Otu).
Pyrgomorphella sphenarioides Bolívar, 1904: male, lateral view. (Otu).
Pyrgomorphella sphenarioides Bolívar, 1904: female, lateral view (Eritrea). (Otu).
CollectionObject 1540717; 5fe27251-f7c4-410b-97fc-16e226831ba8: female, lateral view (lectotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1540717; 5fe27251-f7c4-410b-97fc-16e226831ba8: female, dorsal view (lectotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1540717; 5fe27251-f7c4-410b-97fc-16e226831ba8: female, labels (lectotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1540717; 5fe27251-f7c4-410b-97fc-16e226831ba8: Fig. 14 B. female, lateral view (syntype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1540717; 5fe27251-f7c4-410b-97fc-16e226831ba8: Fig. 14 A. female, dorsal view (syntype). (CollectionObject).

Nomenclature (12)

  • Pyrgomorphella (Pyrgomorphella) sphenarioides Bolívar, 1904: 458.
  • Pyrgomorphella sphenarioides Bolívar, 1904 in Kirby, 1910: 327.
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  • Pyrgomorphella sphenarioides Bolívar, 1904 in Fishelson, 1985: 76.
  • Pyrgomorphella sphenaroides [sic] Bolívar, 1904 in Rowell, Hemp & Harvey, 2015: 128.

Nomenclature references (11)

  • Bey-Bienko, G.Y. & Mistshenko, L. (1951) Keys to the Fauna of the U.S.S.R. [1963 English translation no. 38]. In Locusts and Grasshoppers of the U.S.S.R. and Adjacent Countries. Zoological Inst. of the U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences, Moscow/Leningrad. Vol. 1, 1–400 pp. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/224096#page/9/mode/1up
  • Bolívar, I. (1904) Notas sobre los pirgomórfidos (Pyrgomorphidae). VI. Poecilocerinae. VII. Pyrgomorphinae. Boletín de la Real Sociedad Española de Historia Natural, 4, 432–459. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/28617#page/456/mode/1up
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  • Dirsh, V.M. (1958) Synonymic and taxonomic notes on Acridoidea (Orthoptera). Eos, Revista española de Entomología, 34, 25–32. Available at http://hdl.handle.net/10261/155357
  • Dirsh, V.M. (1965) The African Genera of Acridoidea. Cambridge University Press, Antilocust Centre, London, 579 pp.
  • Fishelson, L. (1985) Fauna Palaestina. Insecta. Orthoptera: Acridoidea, 3, 1–240.
  • Johnston, H.B. (1956) In Annotated catalogue of African grasshoppers. The Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. 833 pp.
  • Johnston, H.B. (1968) Annotated catalogue of African grasshoppers: Vol. Suppl. The Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 445 pp.
  • Kevan, D.K.M.E. (1956) Flightless African genera of pyrgomorphine grasshoppers allied, or superficially similar, to Parasphena I. Bolivar, 1884, and Pyrgomorphella I. Bolivar, 1904, with description of certain new forms. Publicações Culturais da Companhia de Diamantes de Angola, 29, 109–133.
  • Kevan, D.K.M.E. (1977) Superfamily Acridoidea, fam. Pyrgomorphidae. In Orthopterorum Catalogus. Vol. 16, pp. 1–656.
  • Kirby, W.F. (1910) A Synonymic Catalogue of Orthoptera (Orthoptera Saltatoria, Locustidae vel Acridiidae). British Museum (Natural History), London, Vol. 3, Issue 2, 674 pp. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/29660
  • Rowell, C.H.F., Hemp, C. & Harvey, A.W. (2015) Jago's Grasshoppers of East and North East Africa. Volume 1. Pneumoridae, Pyrgomorphidae, Lentulidae, Pamphagidae and Dericorythidae. 238 pp.

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